A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
科技
Technology
In every tool we create, an idea is embedded that goes beyond the function of the thing itself.
在我们创造的每一个工具中，都嵌入了一种超越事物本身功能的思想。
Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.
许多人认识到技术常常带来意想不到的和不受欢迎的副作用。
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
科学的工作是用事实代替表象，用实证代替印象。
As we become more and more wireless and impalpable, designers, instead, want us to be hands-on.
随着我们变得越来越无线化和不可触摸，设计师们反而希望我们亲自动手。
The technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web has been enormously beneficial to society.
万维网的技术突破给社会带来了巨大的好处。
Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.
我们的工程部门修建的高速公路在这个过程中破坏了一个城市或景观。
I don't have a computer. I don't know anything about that. I don't even know what a website is.
我没有电脑。我对此一无所知。我甚至不知道什么是网站。
Let the machine take care of the machines, and I'll go spend more time with my family, or golf.
让机器来照顾机器吧，我就会有更多的时间和家人在一起，或者打高尔夫球。
As sophisticated as the technology gets, the less sophisticated you have to become as an actor.
随着技术的成熟，作为一个演员，你必须变得越不成熟。
The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.
构建一个复杂系统的方法就是从一个非常简单的系统开始构建。
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
我们的科学力量已经超过了我们的精神力量。我们有导弹和误入歧途的人。
The danger of the Web is that you can go from idea to public announcement in under ten minutes.
网络的危险在于，你可以在十分钟内从一个想法变成一个公开的公告。
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The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
发明的进步赋予了人类一个世纪前最大胆的想象所无法想象的力量。
All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.
人类创造的所有最伟大的技术发明——飞机、汽车、电脑——很少提到他的智力，但却充分说明了他的懒惰。
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
对于一项成功的技术，现实必须凌驾于公共关系之上，因为自然是不会被愚弄的。
Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say.
技术给了我们力量，但它没有也不能告诉我们如何使用这种力量。多亏了科技，我们可以在世界各地即时交流，但它仍然不能帮助我们知道该说什么。
The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.
信息技术的最大好处是它使人们能够做他们想做的事情。它让人们变得有创造力。它让人们更有效率。它让人们学习他们以前认为自己学不到的东西，所以从某种意义上说，这一切都是关于潜力的。
The kind of environment that we developed Google in, the reason that we were able to develop a search engine, is the web was so open. Once you get too many rules, that will stifle innovation.
我们开发谷歌的环境，我们能够开发搜索引擎的原因，是网络是如此的开放。一旦你制定了太多的规则，就会扼杀创新。